The numbers
$70 billion: How much Amazon’s ad business raked in over the past 12 months.
$17.2 billion: The amount of money that Amazon made on its advertising services in Q1, up 24% year over year.
$181.5 billion: Amazon’s net sales during the first quarter of 2026, up 17% year over year.
1 billion: The number of items that Amazon has delivered same-day or overnight so far in 2026.
28%: Year-over-year growth rate for Amazon Web Services. That rate continues to accelerate—it’s the fastest rate that AWS has seen in 15 quarters, and is up from 24% in Q4 of 2025.
